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Skybot Scheduler Includes New Getting Started Tools

By Carolyn J Dawson
TMCnet Contributor

Skybot Software announced the release of Skybot Scheduler 2.1, which is the latest version of its Web-based enterprise scheduler and workload automation solution. This version works on Windows, UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX), and Linux servers. The prominent feature of this version is a new Getting Started section fond on the home page that allows users to license the product, set up connected servers, configure their email server, create new jobs and view the status of their enterprise, all from one page. Multiple enhancements to the installation method for AIX and Linux host and agent servers is also available in this release.

Skybot Software offers software solutions for enterprise systems. It has tools that can manage tasks and procedures across multi-platform enterprises. Skybot Software is constantly adding new features and improving the existing functionality for Skybot Scheduler. Job flow diagrams, dashboard, reports, and forecasts are a few features that have been added recently.

Skybot Scheduler is a contemporary enterprise scheduler that offers its own database and a Web-based interface that can be used anywhere with the help of just a browser. It is a light, fast, easy-to-use, and portable and the software need not be installed on the desktop. Skybot Scheduler works flawlessly across Windows, UNIX, and Linux batch systems. Enterprise scheduling from a central site using Skybot Scheduler’s uncomplicated Web interface saves time as well as money, and minimizes the possibility of errors.

Skybot Scheduler can take care of complicated dependencies and issues alerts of errors quickly, thus making sure that minor problems don’t become major worries. The Skybot Scheduler can build an event-driven schedule swiftly and without difficulty across systems for synchronized batch processing, cross-system supervision, and proper enterprise scheduling.

Skybot Scheduler’s instinctive Web browser interface provides all the tools needed for running and monitoring enterprise schedules. Using typical Web browsers, such as Firefox or Internet Explorer, one can schedule jobs, monitor system events, and control users across the enterprise.

Skybot Scheduler comes with system monitors to provide alerts when something has happened on one of the servers. Events such as changes to a file or directory, start or end of processes, or even user-defined events can be monitored. For more difficult batch job scheduling, the event monitors in Skybot Scheduler can be used as fundamentals for reactive jobs.